CIA Leak: Fitzgerald Press Conference
Vice presidential adviser I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was indicted Friday in the CIA leak investigation, and he subsequently resigned. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald outlined the charges at a press briefing. The NewsHour provides extended excerpts from that briefing.

CIA Leak: Legal Analysis
Margaret Warner discusses the legal details and implications of the indictment with Robert Ray, former independent counsel for several investigations during the Clinton administration, and Richard Ben-Veniste, former assistant U.S. attorney during the Watergate scandal and former chief council for the Democrats of the Senate Whitewater committee.

CIA Leak: Lewis Libby
Then, Ray Suarez takes a closer look at Lewis Libby with Mark Leibovich, reporter for the Washington Post, and George Packer, staff writer for the New Yorker.

Shields and Brooks
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks discuss the Libby indictment and other political developments with Jim Lehrer.

Senators on Miers Withdrawal
Then, Warner speaks about the announcement with Sens. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Shields and Brooks
Jim Lehrer follows up with syndicated columnist Mark Shields, New York Times columnist David Brooks and Chicago Tribune national legal affairs correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg about the possible ramifications of the withdrawal.

Series: 30th Anniversary
Tom Bearden returns to a steel plant in Weirton, W.Va., purchased two years ago by a Dutch company, to investigate the impacts of increased foreign steel imports on the plant.

White Sox Win
The Chicago White Sox won the World Series for the first time since 1917. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Ron Rappaport, sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, about the historic win.

CIA Leak Update
The grand jury investigating the CIA leak case expires Friday, but no decisions on indictments were made by Wednesday afternoon. Gwen Ifill gets an update on the situation from Carol Leonnig of the Washington Post.

Supreme Questions
Kwame Holman reports on the state of the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination.

Then, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Spector, R-Pa., and the committee's ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont share their thoughts about the nomination with Jim Lehrer.

Series: 30th Anniversary
Jeffrey Kaye of KCET-Los Angeles revisits a Mexican family of illegal immigrants in Los Angeles, whom he first chronicled in 1993.

Terror Mastermind
Tom Bearden reports on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.

Then, Margaret Warner discusses Zarqawi's role in Iraq with Steven Simon, a counterterrorism official on the National Security Council during the Clinton administration, and Bernard Haykel, assistant professor of Middle Eastern studies at New York University.

Newsmaker: Zalmay Khalilzad
Iraqi officials formally announced Tuesday that the Iraqi constitution has been ratified. Gwen Ifill gets the reaction of Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq.

Hurricane Wilma's Wrath
As Hurricane Wilma moved north along the east coast Tuesday, Kwame Holman provides an update on the storm and its damage in Florida.

Series: 30th Anniversary
As part of the NewsHour's 30th anniversary special, Paul Solman of WGBH-Boston returns to Autaugaville, Ala. When he last visited in 1993, local residents feared the impact of NAFTA on their town of 1,000, which relied heavily on broom manufacturing for income.

Remembering Rosa Parks
Jeffrey Brown looks back at the life of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, who died Monday at the age of 92.

Then, Brown discusses her life and legacy with the Rev. Joseph Lowery, who helped lead the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr., and Democratic Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, a 1960s civil rights activist and the elected delegate for Washington, D.C.

Hurricane Wilma
Kwame Holman reports on Hurricane Wilma's path through southern Florida.

New Fed Chair
Gwen Ifill reports on President Bush's selection of Ben Bernanke, chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, to succeed retiring Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.

Then, Ifill leads a discussion about Bernanke's background and experience with James Galbraith, chairman of government and business relations at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, and Adam Posen, senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics and co-author of a paper with Bernanke that looks at inflation.

Conversation: Bill Richardson
North Korea agreed today to attend a new round of nuclear talks in Beijing, China. Margaret Warner speaks with New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who just returned from Pyongyang, North Korea, about the country's involvement in six-nation talks and the prospects of dismantling its nuclear weapons program.

Series: 30th Anniversary
Spencer Michels of KQED-San Francisco updates a story from 1993 about the emergence of Silicon Valley and the ability of the area to stay competitive with foreign technological hubs.

Troubled Times
Jeffrey Brown discusses the continuing controversy at the New York Times over the actions of reporter Judith Miller.

Then, Brown speaks with Geneva Overholser, professor of journalism at the University of Missouri and former member of the editorial board at the New York Times, about Miller's involvement.

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